Choral

SKU: HL.49046123

12 Christmas Songs for S/SA/SAB and Piano. Arranged by Ulrike Wenckebache. Choral Collection. Christmas, Classical. Softcover. 48 pages. Schott Music #ED23077. Published by Schott Music (HL.49046123).

Twelve choir and piano movements for the Christmas season: classics such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night, as well as unknown international Christmas carols. The individual arrangements can be used flexibly; they work in three-part mixed, but also in one or two voices, with piano accompaniment or a cappella. At the same time, the individual pieces are designed so differently that they are suitable for joint use in concert. With modern and popular harmony and varied rhythm, this Christmas collection is ideal for young choirs.

May/June 2018. By Francisco Nunez, Leonard Bernstein. By John Jacobson, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Leonard Bernstein, Moses Hogan, Robert Lopez, Roger Emerson. Arranged by Emily Crocker, John Higgins. Music Express. Classroom Resources, Choreography, Young Choir, Children's Choir, Elementary, Children, Cross-Curricular. Softcover Media Online. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.234109).

Choral

SKU: BT.MUSM570367917

Composed by Thomas Simaku. Classical. Vocal Score. University of York Music Press #MUSM570367917. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570367917).

Thomas Simaku's  La Leggiadra Luna  arranged for choir a capella. The music begins with a song-like expression introduced at a slow pace, as if emerging from the remoteness of time itself. It is clearly based on the musical utterance of the 'white modality', but these modal segments are constantly surrounded by chromatic inflections throughout the work. Each section of the choir pursues its own path, but during a compositional process of ‘zooming in and out’, as it were, their individual qualities are highlighted. It is as if the initial sound object - which to begin with was far away- is brought nearer to us, in time and space. A variety of shortsegments, predominantly modal, but stemming from different chromatic ‘locations’, are often superimposed. The task of filtering out this 'amourphous' texture and giving its constituent elements - be they melodic or harmonic, or a combination of both - a renewed identity, becomes an essential compositional aim, through which the process of crystallization occurs. The main strategy of the piece is thus exploring the interrelationship between these two sound-worlds (modal and chromatic) and their temporal qualities (ancient and modern), musical or otherwise.

Motivational Insights for Teens. By John Jacobson. (CD). Expressive Art (Choral). Published by Hal Leonard.

By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Choral (TBB). BH Secular Choral. 22 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051481705. Published by Boosey and Hawkes